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13 I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect.(A)

The Punishment of Disobedience.[a] 14 (B)But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, 15 if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,

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Footnotes

  1. 26:14–46 To encourage obedience, the list of punishments is longer than the blessings (cf. a similar proportion in Dt 28). The punishments are presented in waves (vv. 14–17, 18–20, 21–22, 23–26, 27–39), one group following another if the people do not return to obedience. Punishments involve sickness, pestilence, agricultural failure and famine, attack of wild animals, death of the people’s children, destruction of illicit and even licit cults, military defeat, panic, and exile.

13 I am the Lord your God,(A) who brought you out of Egypt(B) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(C) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(D) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(E) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(F)

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